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History. In 1969 four former IBM engineers— Jesse Aweida, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and Zoltan Herger —founded the Storage Technology Corporation. The headquarters was in Louisville, Boulder County, Colorado. In the 1970s, StorageTek launched its Disk Products division.
In 1969 Jesse Aweida, a Palestinian refugee and former executive of IBM, founded StorageTek, a company that dared to compete with computer industry giant IBM. Aweida surmised that a tape drive for an IBM mainframe computer could succeed against IBM's own product, provided it was 15 percent cheaper.
Aug 2, 1999 · At the time, future StorageTek founders Jesse Aweida, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas Kav-anagh and Zoltan Herger saw IBM's view of the tape storage market firsthand and believed Big Blue...
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Storage Technology Corporation is a U.S.-based data storage technology company, supplying products like tape backup equipment and software to manage data storage systems. The company was founded in 1969 and was named Storage Technology Corporation. It changed its name to StorageTek in 1983.
- Louisville, Colorado
- Jesse Aweida
Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek or STK) is a worldwide technology company that delivers a broad range of data storage offerings. StorageTek is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, United States with manufacturing facilities in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and referred to as Sun StorageTek.
Apr 24, 2024 · History. In 1969 four former IBM engineers— Jesse Aweida, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and Zoltan Herger —founded the Storage Technology Corporation. The headquarters was in Louisville, Boulder County, Colorado. In the 1970s, StorageTek launched its Disk Products division.
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Founded in 1969 StorageTek began as a supplier of storage systems in the IBM plug compatible mainframe market. In 1978 - StorageTek launched the STC 4305 - an SSD aimed at the IBM mainframe plug compatible market.
